Keith W. Kintigh - US grants
Affiliations: | Anthropology | Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States |
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According to our matching algorithm, Keith W. Kintigh is the likely recipient of the following grants.Years | Recipients | Code | Title / Keywords | Matching score |
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1994 — 1998 | Kintigh, Keith | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Protohistoric Zuni Social and Political Organization @ Arizona State University 9318701 Kintigh With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Keith Kintigh will analyze museum collections and associated documentation located in institutions in New York city, Boston and Cambridge England.. These data will be integrated with materials in hand and published in a monograph which traces changes in Zuni Native American settlement pattern and social organization between ca. 1240 and 1540 AD. In the late 19th and early 20th century major archaeological excavations were conducted at three prehistoric Zuni towns: Heshotauthla, Halona and Kechipawan. Work proceeded at a scale which would be impossible today and at all sites large areas were exposed. While extensive field notes were taken, at none of the sites were the materials fully analyzed and published and Dr. Kintigh wishes to examine these data and incorporate them into his own broad scale analysis of Zuni prehistory. The Zuni case is particularly significant because the area is one of the very few in the United States where a fertile archaeological record documents 1000 years of cultural continuity with a modern group having a strong traditional culture and rich ethnographic record. The 1240-1540 AD period marks a particularly important interval because during this time Zuni first aggregated into a few large settlements, then relocated into a larger number of planned towns and then finally established the villages which were occupied when Spanish entered the region. Thus this record allows one to trace the development of complex society and the subsequent social shifts which accompanied the change to smaller settlements. The result will contribute to understanding of the underlying processes involved in population aggregation and increasing organizational complexity. This research is important for several reasons. It will provide data of interest to many regional archaeologists. It will also shed new light on the effects of European invasion on Native American peoples. Because la te prehistoric social and political changes throughout the U.S. Southwest appear to be inter-related, a refined understanding of the Zuni situation will benefit broader archaeological inquiries. *** |
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1996 — 1998 | Kintigh, Keith | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Dissertation Improvement Grant: Colorado River Archaeology @ Arizona State University Under the direction of Dr. Keith Kintigh, Mr. Andrew Duff will collect data for his doctoral dissertation. He will examine a sample of archaeological ceramics from late prehistoric sites in the Upper Little Colorado River (ULCR) region of East-Central Arizona as well as others from related sites in adjacent areas. To accomplish this, samples will be analyzed by neutron activation at the University of Missouri reactor. The elemental determinations which result will allow Mr. Duff to determine which ceramics came from the same sources and on this basis to reconstruct patterns of trade and social interaction. Mr. Duff wishes to examine links among the different pueblos located in the and their differential ties with the larger prehistoric world. Preliminary work, based on analysis of ceramic design, suggests that although ULCR communities were spatially close, their trade networks varied significantly. A considerable degree of social complexity was reached in the prehistoric Southwest and given no other form of transportation than foot travel, archaeologists wish to understand how individual communities achieved and maintained links with other groups. A second interesting question concerns social strategies which permitted survival in a highly variable and unpredictable desert environment. Researchers hypothesize that systems were designed to allow the movement of goods to compensate for the spatial variation in rainfall and productivity which characterize deserts. To examine this question scientists must reconstruct interaction networks and they use archaeologically recovered material remains to accomplish this goal. Because clays from different deposits often vary in chemical composition they can often be used to trace movements of goods and Mr. Duff's research takes advantage of this fact. His work is important for several reasons. It will shed new light on human adaptation to unpredictable environments. It will provide data of interest to many archaeologists and will also assist in the training of a promising young scientist. |
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1997 — 2001 | Kintigh, Keith | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
@ Arizona State University Under the direction of Dr. Keith Kintigh, MS Nancy Mahoney will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. The goal of her research is to understand how prehistoric Native Americans in the Chaco region of the US achieved the high degree of social complexity which is manifest in the archaeological record. At its height in the early second millennium AD, the Chaco culture covered an area of over 120,000 square kilometers of the Colorado Plateau. Archaeologically the system is defined by a distinctive architectural style which ostensibly forms a three-tier settlement hierarchy. At its core in Chaco Canyon, several monumental `great houses` were four stories tall and contained over 600 rooms. The geometric ground plans and distinct masonry techniques suggest they required considerable planning, labor and skill to construct. Surprisingly, despite decades of study it is still not possible to determine the functions they served. At a second level smaller great houses are distributed across the wider Chaco region and associated with each are a series of small pueblo dwellings. Similarity of architectural styles, material remains and as well as traces of ancient roads which connected great houses indicates a complex culture which integrated large numbers of people in some form of hierarchical social structure. Archaeologists however do not understand the degree to which centralized power existed, how it was maintained or what practical purpose it served. Some have argued that the `Chaco Phenomenon` was primarily ritual in nature, that individual small great houses were essentially independent and that the largest great houses in Chaco Canyon itself were occupied only sporadically for religious functions. Others have postulated a much greater degree of centralized control and believe that the system worked to store and distribute subsistence resources across a desert area in which rainfall varied markedly and unpredictably from year to year and place to place. MS Mahoney has noted that very little research has been conducted at secondary great houses. She argues that through analysis of behavior at individual great houses and associated pueblos, and then comparison among great house-pueblo systems, it will be possible to reconstruct the essential aspects of the broader social organization. With NSF support she will study data from two great house-pueblo complexes and continue excavation at a third to collect comparable material. This research is important for several reasons. It will provide data of interest to many archaeologists. It will shed new light on the impressive achievements of prehistoric Native Americans and will assist in training a promising young scientist. |
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1998 — 1999 | Kintigh, Keith | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
@ Arizona State University Under the direction of Dr. Keith Kintigh, Mr. Colin Grier will collect data for his doctoral dissertation. He will conduct archaeological excavation at Dionisio Point, located on Galiano Island in British Columbia. The site contains five large prehistoric house depressions and test excavations have produced radiocarbon dates ranging from 2150 - 1400 BP. This, in addition to stylistic analysis of artifacts recovered, places the site within the Marpole phase of Northwest Coast prehistory. It was during this time that ethnographically observed patterns first appear in the archaeological record. Because of the availability of rich and dependable ocean and riverine resources, especially salmon, Northwest Coast peoples reached a level of social complexity and social stratification unique among hunters and gatherers. They inhabited large permanent villages, constructed multi-family dwellings, had hereditary chiefs as well as slaves and waged organized intergroup warfare. Mr. Grier wishes to gain insight into the processes which led to this pattern. In particular he plans to examine how social inequality developed. Both ethnographically and at Dionisio Point large carefully constructed plank dwellings housed multiple families. Each had their own fireplace and occupied a separate area within the house. At one level the large household formed a cohesive functioning unit and it is highly likely that individual families were mutually independent. However within the household each maintained a separate identity and Mr. Grier wishes to determine the extent to which egalitarianism applied on both a social and economic level. It is during the Marpole phase that chiefdoms emerged on the Northwest coast and the underlying goal of the research is to examine the relationship between emerging chiefdoms and the nature of interaction between smaller constituent family groups. Because individual family space is so well defined archaeologically within each plank house, the site provides and excellent situation to study this question. Mr. Grier will excavate broad horizontal areas within several houses and collect both artifacts and faunal remains. Comparison of the nature and amount of these materials among family units within individual houses and then between houses will allow him to assess relative degrees of inequality. This research is important for several reasons. It will provide insight into the changing roles of families in society as this larger entity increases in cultural complexity. It will also assist in training a promising young scientist. |
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2001 | Kintigh, Keith | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Dissertation: Technological Style, Exchange, and the Organizational Scale of Pueblo Iv Zuni Society @ Arizona State University Under the direction of Dr. Keith Kintigh, MS Deborah Huntley will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. Using both chemical and stylistic techniques she will analyze a series of ceramics from prehistoric Zuni sites located in west central New Mexico. Between 1250 and 1400 AD at least 28 large pueblos were built, occupied and abandoned. These large structures contained up to 400 rooms, were defended from external attack and were of sufficient size to function as independent communities. They were often spaced within 5 - 10 km. of each other. While excavation has provided insight into individual pueblo function, archaeologists do not understand how these communities, which clearly share a wide range of cultural traits, interacted with each other and to what extent the formed an integrated functioning system. Models vary from hypothesized community autonomy, through alliance to ritual complementarily. To examine this question MS Huntley will study ceramics excavated at a series of contemporaneous sites and also conduct similar chemical analyses on localized deposits from which clay was extracted. She will use electron microprobe analysis, Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry and Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis to characterize both clay and pottery glaze to reconstruct the Zuni manufacturing and exchange system. Combined with a stylistic analysis she will be able to determine where individual ceramics were made, whether unique local styles exist and the degree and direction finished vessels moved between pueblos. These data will provide insight not only into the overall amount of interaction but the extent to which alliances among different pueblos existed. |
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2001 — 2002 | Kintigh, Keith | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
@ Arizona State University Under the direction of Dr. Keith Kintigh, Ms Suzanne Eckert will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. She will analyze large series of ceramics recovered from two archaeological sites, Hummingbird Pueblo and Pottery Mound located in the lower Rio Puerco drainage of New Mexico. These large multi-room sites are typical of the late prehistoric period of the region and date to approximately 1150 to 1400 AD. Within the Southwest the centuries immediately before Spanish contact are characterized by population movements from multiple widely dispersed small sites into a more limited number of larger entities. This of necessity required the development of social mechanisms which integrated previously distinct social groups. In addition to such local aggregation, long distance migration which characterized early historic Southwest groups also occurred in prehistoric times and evidence indicates that people from well outside the local region also lived at both the Hummingbird Pueblo and Pottery Mound sites. Ms Eckert wishes to understand how integrating mechanisms developed, the extent to which distinctive social identities were retained and the degree and nature of ties beyond the local Rio Puerco region. She will also examine how these factors changed over time |
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2002 — 2003 | Kintigh, Keith | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
@ Arizona State University A century of research has focused on understanding the complete abandonment of the Mesa Verde region of the American Southwest by A.D. 1300. Enormous efforts have been devoted to reconstructing the prevailing environmental conditions and to understanding where the Mesa Verde people went. However, a full understanding of this dramatic abandonment requires knowledge of the relationships among villages prior to and during the depopulation of this region. Existing data are inadequate to assess these interactions. For this critical period (A.D. 1150-1300), this project investigates social interaction among villages using evidence for economic cooperation, indicated by the exchange of pottery among villages and the locations of communal and defensive buildings signifying cooperation and conflict. The combination of ceramic exchange data and the distribution of communal and defensive architecture provides a powerful means for understanding the social processes at work during this otherwise well-documented abandonment. |
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2004 — 2005 | Kintigh, Keith | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
@ Arizona State University Under the supervision of Dr. Keith Kintigh, Gregson Schachner will conduct a research project aimed at understanding the formation of ancestral Puebloan villages in the El Morro Valley of west-central New Mexico during the AD 1200s. Prior to the thirteenth century, the El Morro Valley was used by nearby Puebloan populations as a resource gathering area and for sporadic, short-term habitation. However, by the late AD 1200s, thousands of migrant Puebloan farmers founded a series of villages and transformed the El Morro Valley into one of the largest population centers on the Colorado Plateau. Schachner's research will utilize analyses of regional settlement patterns and ceramic exchange in order to understand the process of migration and its resulting effects on community formation. |
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2004 — 2006 | Candan, K. Selcuk Redman, Charles (co-PI) [⬀] Kintigh, Keith Anderies, John (co-PI) [⬀] Nelson, Margaret (co-PI) [⬀] Mccartney, Peter |
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Enabling the Study of Long-Term Human and Social Dynamics: a Cyberinfrastructure For Archaeology @ Arizona State University Traditional scientific research is focused within academic disciplines with a marked divide between social and natural sciences. However, scientific research is now crossing disciplinary boundaries, seeing human and natural systems as inextricably linked. This project is ultimately concerned with understanding long-term change in linked human-natural systems. Rapid change is often obvious, whereas long-term change is difficult to observe and even more difficult to study because scientific data typically span, at most, a few decades. Archaeology, on the other hand, collects and analyzes data on human societies and their environments that span centuries or even millennia. Thus, archaeology has the potential to play a unique role in developing and testing scientific models on such topics as demography, economy, and social stability. |
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2005 — 2009 | Nelson, Margaret [⬀] Nelson, Ben (co-PI) [⬀] Kintigh, Keith Anderies, John (co-PI) [⬀] Hegmon, Michelle (co-PI) [⬀] |
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Be/Cnh: Long-Term Coupled Socioecological Change in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico @ Arizona State University Each generation transforms an inherited social and environmental world and leaves it as a legacy to succeeding generations. Long-term interactions among social and ecological processes give rise to complex dynamics on multiple temporal and spatial scales -- cycles of change followed by relative stasis and then a new cycle of change. Within the cycles are understandable patterns and irreducible uncertainties. Neither stability nor transformation can be taken as the norm. Although these cycles can be identified, it remains uncertain what fosters stability or contributes to transformation over long cycles. What vulnerabilities can be tolerated, and which tip a system into transformation and at what scale? Resilience theorists have built an understanding of social and ecological vulnerabilities, stability, and transformation based on studies of contemporary socioecological systems. This interdisciplinary research project will examine some of these understandings by applying archaeological and ecological analyses and formal dynamical modeling. The project will be undertaken by a collaboration of archaeologists, mathematical modelers, ecologists, and environmental scientists. Archaeology is attuned to cycles of change over the lifespan of a society -- heightened inter-societal interaction, economic intensification, and large-scale anthropogenic environmental change . It therefore extends scientific observation of stability and transformation beyond all social memory. Archaeologically documented case studies in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico provide the information for investigating long-term human-environmental interactions. The project will (1) compile documentation on up to four archaeological cases, (2) examine their pan-regional connections, and (3) employ mathematical modeling and subsequent archaeological and ecological analysis to abstract the key variables and processes underlying periods of cultural stability and both rapid and protracted transformations. The empirical investigations provide substantive contexts for the models, while the models will foster insight into generalizations that are then examined in empirical contexts. This iterative process is expected to lead to insights that could not be derived from any single approach, nor can they be derived from the short time span available in contemporary study of social or ecological change. |
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2009 — 2010 | Kintigh, Keith Peeples, Matthew (co-PI) [⬀] |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
@ Arizona State University Under the direction of Dr. Keith Kintigh, Matthew Peeples will conduct archaeological analyses of pottery, architectural data, and site locations from the Zuni/Cibola region of New Mexico and Arizona. The Zuni/Cibola region is centered on the contemporary Zuni Pueblo and the Zuni Indian Reservation. This region has long been a location of relatively large agricultural communities beginning as early as 3,000 years ago. Peeples's work focuses on the period from AD 1150-AD 1325. This period saw a major transformation in the organization of communities as well as changes in the ways that people interacted across the region. In a single generation, people in the Zuni/Cibola region went from living in thousands of small, dispersed agricultural hamlets to living in about twelve large nucleated towns housing several hundred individuals. These analyses are directed at understanding how interaction and social identification among individuals and groups may have changed during this transition. Analyses include (1) chemical characterizations of pottery focused on determining where it was made, (2) studies of the techniques used to produce pottery focused on identifying people using similar methods, (3) studies of painted pottery and public architecture focused on understanding how people expressed social similarities or differences through material culture, and (4) studies of site distributions focused on documenting settlement changes. Together, these analyses will provide a dynamic characterization of social organization and interaction at a regional scale during a period of wide-spread social change. Peeples will test models based on contemporary social theories focused on social movements to explore potential similarities among major social transformations across a variety of cultural and historical contexts. |
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2010 — 2015 | Kintigh, Keith Candan, K. Selcuk |
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Iii: Small: One Size Does Not Fit All: Empowering the User With User-Driven Integration @ Arizona State University Data and knowledge integration are costly processes. Consequently, most existing solutions rely on a one-size-fits-all approach, where the data are integrated upfront and then the integrated data or knowledge-bases are used as is. Such snapshot-based integration solutions, however, cannot be effectively applied when the data sources are autonomous and dynamic or when, as in most scientific and decision making applications, assumptions, beliefs, and knowledge of the domain experts are indispensable to the integration process. |
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2012 — 2013 | Kintigh, Keith | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Planning Archaeological Infrastructure For Integrative Science @ Arizona State University A fundamental challenge of science is to understand the processes that shape how human societies interact with one another and that explain how societies are, at once, constrained by and change the natural environments in which they are situated. Because of the complexity of the interactions, achieving these understandings must be seen as a shared enterprise that broadly engages social, behavioral, and economic sciences, as well as a range of natural sciences. Some of these processes are strongly influenced by events that can be readily observed over periods of days, months, or years. Other important processes operate slowly - over centuries or millennia - and their effects often cannot be detected in present-day or historical observations. Because archaeology is frequently the only source of long-term scientific data on human societies and their environments, it is essential that we take advantage of the unique information that archaeology can provide. Indeed, reconstructed archaeological sequences can be seen as completed "experiments" in the long-term operation of social and environmental processes played out in diverse social and natural environments. |
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2012 — 2015 | Spielmann, Katherine [⬀] Kintigh, Keith Clark, Tiffany (co-PI) [⬀] Lee, Allen (co-PI) [⬀] |
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@ Arizona State University With National Science Foundation Support, Dr. Katherine Spielmann will lead an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and software developers in the analysis of the factors that led to the over-hunting of large game (principally antelope and deer) in the American Southwest between A.D. 1200 and 1500. This period of time is characterized by large-scale migrations, and aggregation of people into towns of 500-1000 residents. During this time some archaeological animal bone assemblages indicate a decline in the availability of large game. There is currently no regional-scale understanding of the factors that promoted over-hunting in some areas but not in others. The two primary factors to be investigated are 1) population size, concentration, and persistence on the landscape, and 2) environmental variation. The team will then investigate the contexts in which people chose to intensify turkey husbandry in response to declining access to meat from wild game. Although domesticated turkeys are known from the Southwest by A.D. 500, until the 1100s they were largely raised for feathers. After that time some populations intensified turkey production for consumption, while others did not. Why this variation existed is a target of the project. From this perspective the project is important because it will provide insight into long term interactions between a society at a relatively "simple" level of social and subsistence organization and the environment within which it existed. The results will be generalizable to many other cultures and regions of the world. |
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2014 — 2017 | Kinzig, Ann (co-PI) [⬀] Kintigh, Keith |
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Bcc: Collaborative Research: Designing Skope: Synthesized Knowledge of Past Environments @ Arizona State University An important focus of scientific research is understanding the complex interactions between human societies and the climatic, physical, and biological environments on which they depend, and which they, in turn, influence. Past environments, of course, were often quite different from those we experience today. Furthermore, important processes of social and environmental change operate slowly and are sometimes visible only when viewed over decades or centuries. In order to study social and natural processes operating over anything other than short periods in recent decades, long-term environmental knowledge specific to particular locations and times is essential. |
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2016 — 2018 | Oas, Sarah Kintigh, Keith |
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Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: the Role of Food in Establishing Social Solidarity @ Arizona State University While food is widely considered a fundamental part of human social life and culture, the relationships between daily food practices and broader processes of social integration and social transformation have received little attention. This study investigates social drivers of food change in the past and provides a comparative case for considering the role of food and food practices in social and economic transformations in small-scale societies. More broadly, this research will improve and contribute to long-term histories of cuisine and traditional food practices of ancestral peoples of contemporary Western Puebloan communities (i.e., Acoma, Zuni, Hopi). The collection of this data will provide training and research experience for several undergraduate students in multiple archaeological analytical methods at Arizona State University. The data sets produced by this research will be digitally curated and made available to other researchers in publications, professional meetings, and online through the Digital Archaeology Record (tDAR). Thus, this study will not only synthesize large amounts of previously published and unpublished data and new research, but it will enhance infrastructure for research and education by providing a useful template and baseline for future studies of foodways in other places and periods. By investigating and developing methods to examine food practices and their social dynamics in the past, this research contributes to understandings about the social and political importance of food in everyday life. |
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2016 — 2020 | Kinzig, Ann (co-PI) [⬀] Kintigh, Keith |
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@ Arizona State University This project will develop SKOPE (Synthesizing Knowledge of Past Environments), a freely available Web site that will provide easy access to state-of-the-art measurements and reconstructions of long-term environmental data, such as rainfall, temperature, plant and animal distributions, streamflow, and soils. Given a time period and a location, it will display the data graphically and will permit users to download the original high-resolution environmental data. By enabling scholars to easily discover, explore, visualize, and synthesize knowledge of environmental stability and change over centuries or millennia, SKOPE will empower reproducible research on the effects of climatic variation on human societies and the substantial impacts of humans on ancient and modern environments. It will also facilitate ongoing improvement of paleoenvironmental reconstructions. SKOPE will transform vast amounts of prior data collection, modeling, and research into usable environmental knowledge, enhancing the infrastructure of scientific research in such diverse disciplines as agronomy, anthropology, archaeology, ecology, economics, geography, political science, sociology, and sustainability. SKOPE will also make available publicly funded paleoenvironmental data and models to users in industry and government. For example, planners will be able to use SKOPE?s long-term environmental reconstructions to investigate vulnerabilities in infrastructure not revealed by historical experience (for example, streamflow or rainfall regimes outside the ranges of those documented historically). Students will have free access to high-quality environmental scenarios in which to situate their studies. Members of the general public will be able to see how ancient environments differed from those of today. Expanding the community able to obtain and use paleoenvironmental information will increase public scientific literacy and public engagement with science and technology. |
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2017 — 2019 | Kintigh, Keith Pierce-Mcmanamon, Francis Ryan, Susan (co-PI) [⬀] |
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Advancing Synthesis, Open Access, and Reproducibility in Archaeological Research @ Arizona State University The project will enhance the ability of archaeologists to conduct synthetic research that will contribute better understandings of how different sorts of societies function and change over long periods of time. General understandings of social processes resulting from this synthetic research can, in turn, contribute to solutions for problems that face societies across the world today. However, such research can only be accomplished if archaeologists archive their datasets so that they can be readily found, accessed, and used by other investigators. Such research also requires that the datasets be thoroughly documented so the meaning of the individual observations can be properly interpreted. Project researchers have determined that the two major impediments to depositing well-documented data are the time it takes to complete the data documentation process and the lack of training in digital data management. The project will make it easier and faster to deposit archaeological data in a digital repository by improving the software that solicits information about the individual data fields during the process of depositing the data. It will also develop online help and training materials concerning the management of digital data. As a result of these efforts, project researchers expect that more data will be deposited for use by other investigators and that the datasets deposited will be better documented and therefore, more usable for synthetic research. The project helps ensure open access to the results of publicly funded research, both to other researchers and to the public at large, and it enables the reproducibility of key knowledge claims to be carefully examined. This project is directly focused on enhancing the nation's infrastructure for research and education and on expanding use of that infrastructure by researchers in academia, industry, and government. By enabling productive reuse of academic and private-sector research data it will enhance partnerships between academia and industry. By expanding and improving access to results of archaeological research, it will increase public engagement in science. Finally, synthetic research that includes archaeology's long-term perspective, will help address fundamental social issues that have the potential to improve well-being of individuals in society in the U.S. and abroad. |
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2023 — 2024 | Kintigh, Keith Peeples, Matthew (co-PI) [⬀] Lee, Allen (co-PI) [⬀] |
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@ Arizona State University This project investigates how patterns of connection between people affect their quality of life over the long term. The goal is to map out patterns of interaction between people in different locations and assess how these patterns impacted the development of their communities in a changing environment. Learning about these patterns can be accomplished with archaeological data, which show how ancient people worked together to meet basic human needs. Understanding how social networks grew and changed in the past can lead to a better understanding of how people today can work together for increased prosperity, inclusiveness, environmental sustainability, and peace. <br/><br/>This project brings together a team of researchers from multiple universities, not-for-profit organizations, and tribal communities. These scientists use archaeological evidence to investigate relationships between spatial patterns of social interaction and the quality of life over 800 years in the southwestern United States. They combine demographic, socioeconomic, health, and environmental reconstructions of the past built using data from previous NSF-funded projects into a single research platform. They also use this platform, together with ideas from complex systems and network analysis, to examine how spatial properties of human networks influenced other aspects of human development, using archaeological indicators of the UN Sustainable Development Goals as the basis for assessment. The results will advance understandings of how socio-spatial networks influence sustainability and the quality of life.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria. |
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